Living Language

Living Language is pianist Jacob Greenberg's consideration of musical style and evolving cultural legacy, across a broad range of pieces. This disc explores how composers build on their history with a highly personal creative vocabulary, bringing their work forward into the present; these artists give thoughtful tribute while also seeking renewal. The program features Béla Bartók's virtuosic Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, the boogie-woogie and stride piano-inspired Endless Shout by George Lewis, Chopin's patriotic and wistful op. 41 Mazurkas, Wang Lu's modernized guqin music titled Constellations Apart a premiere recording, and Leoš Janácek's kaleidoscopic suite In the Mists, rooted in the rhythms of spoken Czech and marked by profound grief.